Experts like Joris Peels, creator of the first 3D printer for children, agrees that grade school kids are ideally suited to the brave new world of 3D printing.

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"This is the first time that the major printer manufacturers and print service providers have converged on a single printing protocol, " says Don Wright, chairman of the Printer Working Group and director of strategic and technical alliances for Lexmark, a supplier of printing products.

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Their focus on social good initiatives even led to a new technologic innovation: the first 3G enabled printer to support printing from a cell phone.

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Cambridge, MA, September 26, 2012 -- After a year in development, Formlabs has officially unveiled the first "prosumer" desktop 3D printer.

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One of the first things that a 3-D printer will make will be a house made possible by wireless electricity.

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Introduced in 1984, HP Thinkjet was the world's first mass-marketed personal inkjet printer.

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Ms. Vance-Cooks is set to become acting public printer on Tuesday and will be the first woman to hold the job.

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The first is this: researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have unveiled the smallest 3-D Printer produced to date.

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At first, the names were neatly typed by a printer.

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John Dunlap, Congress' official printer, received a manuscript on July 4, 1776, from which he made the first printed copies of the Declaration.

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